Main events in Sherborne and the surrounding area ….
February
20 -22 Light Up Poole Festival
March
5 -8 Swanage Blues Festival
April
11 Abbotsbury Food Festival
12 Easter Bonnet Parade, Lyme Regis
15-19 From Page to Screen (Bridport Film Festival)
TBC 18-26 Visit Dorset Attractions Festival
24-26 Swanage Railway Diesel Gala and Beer Festival
Easter Egg hunts at Dorset attractions
May
1 – 6 Sherborne Abbey Music Festival
2 VenFest
3 Shaftesbury Food & Drink Festival
TBC 2 – 3 Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
8- 10 VE Day commemorations
8 -10 Christchurch Food and Wine Festival
16 -17 Spring Tide Food Festival, Burton Bradstock
23 – 25 Mudeford Seafood Festival
22 – 25 Jazz Jurassica, Lyme Regis
25 Sherborne Castle Country Fair
30 -31 Wessex Folk Festival
23 – 7 Jun Dorset Arts Weeks
Baby swans hatching at Abbotsbury Swannery
June
12 -14 Wimborne Folk Festival
13 -14 Highcliffe Food & Arts Festival
12 -14 Swanage Fish Festival
14 – 20 Bridport Food & Beer Festival
26 – 28 Tankfest
26 -27 Midsummer Music Festival
27 – 7 July Beaminster Festival of Music and the Arts
July
TBC Christchurch Music Festival
3 -5 UK Boogie Woogie Music Festival, North Dorset
TBC Cerne Abbas Music Festival
4 B-Sharp Busking Festival, Lyme Regis
4 Sherborne Summer Festival
10- 11 Jurassic Fields Music Festival
10 – 12 Swanage Jazz Festival
11- 12 Dorset Seafood Festival, Weymouth
17 – 19 Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival
24 -26 Bridport Folk Festival
TBC Beer and Bluegrass Festival, Poole
25 – 31 Lyme Regis RNLI Lifeboat Week
25 – 1 Aug Swanage Regatta & Carnival
30 – 2 Aug Camp Bestival
August
TBC Dorset Food & Arts Festival, Poundbury
1 – 2 Great Dorset Chilli Festival
1 – 8 Lyme Regis Regatta & Carnival
15 Dorchester Cider Festival
15-16 Christchurch Carnival
19 Gillingham and Shaftesbury Agricultural Show
22 Bridport Carnival
23 Bridport Torchlight Procession
20 – 23 Bournemouth Air Festival
27 Melplash Show
27 – 31 Great Dorset Steam Fair
September
5 Bridport Hat Festival
5 – 6 Dorset County Show
5 – 6 Food Rocks
11 -13 Swanage Folk Festival
12 – 13 Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival
5 – 13 B-Side Festival, Portland
20 Weymouth Ironman 70.3
October
Wimborne Minster Food & Drink Festival
13 – 17 Dorchester Literary Festival
16 -31 Purbeck Film Festival
17 – 1st Nov Abbotsbury Enchanted Floodlit Gardens
Sherborne Literary Festival
Sherborne International Film Festival
November
1 – 7 Bridport Literary Festival
Dorset Food & Drink Christmas Fair
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